"Discovering the Scientist Within": Science and engineering day for middle school girls

"Discovering the Scientist Within", the annual Science and Engineering Workshop for Middle School Girls is scheduled for Saturday, November 7, 2009. The event brings local middle school girls to campus for a morning of activities related to science and engineering. The highlight is experiencing science by taking tours of various science labs.

Physics participates by offering tours (2 one- hour sessions between 10:30 am ­1 pm). We have hands-on experiences like imploding soda cans, liquid nitrogen ice cream, superconductors, musical notes on the spectrum analyser, the fish-tank sunrise, standing waves in salt on speaker-driven trays , angular momentum chair etc. The girls always enjoy it and it is great experience to see them get their hands on experiments and think about science. Graduate and undergraduate student volunteers make the event successful. The set-up is done by Jim Ketter.